News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-01
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
EVENTS THAT ARE THOUGHT
WORTH BEING RECORDED.
Moody in the South-AlI for For
gery-A Walking Freak-Sher-
man in a Street Car, etc, etc.

Moody in the South-All for For
gery-A Walking Freak-Sher-
| man in a Street Car, etc, etc.
TALKING ABOUT his coming visit to
the South and the hostile attitude of the
colored people toward him, Evangelist
Moody says that the trouble down
South when he was there was due to the
negroes more than to the whites. AL
though usually there the whites wOr-
| ship In one building and the blacks in
another, still, at the Moody meetings
all were welcome, and seats reserved for
the blacks, but the colored people in
sisted that he should refuse to preach
unless the white people would throw
aside their lifelong prejudices and allow
them perfect equality as to seats and
| positions in church services. The COM
mittees offered to divide the churches,
allowing the cOlored people one side
and the whites the other half, but that
would not do. They we're bound to sit
| in the same seats with the whites, or
not at all. Gas 1 only stopped two or
three days in town" said Mr.. Moody,
| 81 could not stop and enter this fight of
| the races that has been going on for
| century. I went to preach the Gospel
as an evangelist, not as reformer."
GEN. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN, after the
theatre one night, boarded Franklin
avenue car with some ladies, all of
whom found seats except one. At the
| upper end of the car was little darby,
with hands in pockets and a great deal
of the whites of his eyes showing. The
general caught sight of him, and, taking
him by the collar, stood him up against
the door, half frightened and certainly
| ignorant of the offense which he had
given the tall, gray bearded hero of the
March to the Sea. Then the lady sat
down. After the car had proceeded
few blocks a gentleman vacated a seat
and got out. Somebody called the gen
erals attention to the fact, and he, in
the presence of the whole carful of pas
sengers, took the young darby in his
srms, carried him to the seat and care
fully dumped him into it. Having given
up his seat to lady, the darby wns en-
titled to the first vacancy, and old
Tecumseh saw that he got it.
OUR jovial ancestors in England had
merry, conceited jests, ways that they
were. One of these jests was the frog
mug, or, as it is called in the North, the
"puddock mug" Deep in the hollow
of beer mug, more or less highly dec
Grated outside, the effigy of frog or
toad. nodded to the size and tinted to
the color oflife waste be seen. The mug
filled with humming ale was presented |
to victim, who deeply drank; when re-
luctantly he withdrew his lips to draw
the usual deep breath of satisfaction,
and gazing into the mug to see what |
further delight was in store, he saw the |
hideous reptile head peering up at him,
and the body as if in the act to leap. |
The mugs were made very strong, so
that when the frightened victim dropped |
them to the floor they should not break
and interrupt the Joy of the jokers.
A CITIZEN of Bagdad, Fla, passing
through a neighbours peanut field !
helped himself to some nuts that he
found here and there laid on the top of
stumps. After he had eaten his fill it
occurred to him that the nuts might
have been poisoned and put on the
stumps to kill crows; and then he was
sure that he felt the poison stealing
through his system. He hurried home
and sent messenger to the owner of
the peanuts to ask if they were poison
ed, and while waiting for an answer
drank melted lard as an antidote to the
poison. He had swallowed nearly
gallon, and was indeed feeling badly
when the messenger returned with the
information that the peanuts were all
right. The citizen does not banker after
peanuts any more.
JUST how the use of tobacco was re-
garded in New England in the early
days, two laws show. One was made
at Harvard soon after the foundation
of the institution and read: "No schol-
ars shall take tobacco unless permitted
by the President, with the consent of
their parents and guardians, and on
good reason first given by physician,
and then in sober and private man
ner." The other is in the old Massachu-
sets colony laws, and prescribes the
punishment for any one "who shall
smoke tobacco within twenty poles of
any house, or who shall take tobacco in
any inn or common victualling house,
except in private room, so as that
neither the innster of said house nor
any other guest shall take offence
thereat.
FROM 5000 to 10000 gallons of blood
a day are used in making buttons in
large factory in Bridgeport, near Chi
cago. About 100 men and boys are en-
be fresh beef blood. A Mr. Hirsh was
the first to introduce the business, some
years ago, and is now immensely
wealthy. Much of the blood evaporates
in the process of drying, but the pure
Oh, Re,
used by cloth manufacturers for "set-
sheets, broken up, will make buttons,
earrings, breastpins, belt clasps, combs,
and even door knobs. There are num-
Der of "blood" utilizing factories in
England, and blood door-knob factory
in Trenton, N. J.
MAJOR SHELTON, of Hartwell, Ga,
tells the following: At the battle of An
tietam Gen. Barksdale drew up his
brigade in line of battle and addressed
them, telling them that the battle would
probably decide the destiny of the Con-
federacy, of their homes. their property,
their fathers, their mothers, their wives,
their sweethearts, and imploring them
to acquit themselves like men. If there
was a man in the ranks who felt that he
had nothing to fight for let him get out. :
Thereupon two lean, lank ''dirt eaters"
stepped out, and one drawled: "Gen1,
men him hain't got no home, no pappy,
no nanny, no wife, no sweetheart, and
nary niger. Kin we go?'' The general
looked at them with contempt, and then
Numbered: "Git!" They got.
A RECENT Omaha bride had bad luck
on her weddinU day She had oOt |
almost to the church when If was dis